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Disclaimer This document is aimed at informing potential applicants for Horizon 2020 funding. It serves only as an example. The actual Web forms and templates, provided in the online proposal submission system under the Participant Portal, might differ from this example. Proposals must be prepared and submitted .via the online proposal submission system under the Participant Portal.
2016-2017
Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) Special template - applicable when financial support to third parties is eligible
Administrative forms (Part A) Research proposal (Part B)
Version 1.0 15 October 2015
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Table of contents
Section Title Action
1 General information
2 Participants & contacts
3 Budget
4 Ethics
How to fill in the formsThe administrative forms must be filled in for each proposal using the templates available in the submission system. Some data fields in the administrative forms are pre-filled based on the previous steps in the submission wizard.
Deadline Id:
Proposal acronym:
Proposal number:
Type of action: ()
Topic:
Horizon 2020
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1 - General informationTopic
Call Identifier
Type of Action
Deadline Id
Acronym
Proposal title* Max 200 characters (with spaces). Must be understandable for non-specialists in your field.
Note that for technical reasons, the following characters are not accepted in the Proposal Title and will be removed: < > " &
Duration in months Estimated duration of the project in full months.
Free keywords Enter any words you think give extra detail of the scope of your proposal (max 200 characters with spaces).
Abstract
Short summary (max. 2,000 characters, with spaces) to clearly explain: • the objectives of the proposal • how they will be achieved • their relevance to the work programme. Will be used as the short description of the proposal in the evaluation process and in communications with the programme management committees and other interested parties . • Do not include any confidential information. • Use plain typed text, avoiding formulae and other special characters. If the proposal is written in a language other than English, please include an English version of this abstract in the “Technical Annex” section.
Remaining characters 2000
Has this proposal (or a very similar one) been submitted in the past 2 years in response to a call for proposals under the 7th Framework Programme, Horizon 2020 or any other EU programme(s)? Yes No
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Declarations
1) The coordinator declares to have the explicit consent of all applicants on their participation and on the content of this proposal.
2) The information contained in this proposal is correct and complete.
3) This proposal complies with ethical principles (including the highest standards of research integrity — as set out, for instance, in the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity — and including, in particular, avoiding fabrication, falsification, plagiarism or other research misconduct).
4) The coordinator confirms:
- to have carried out the self-check of the financial capacity of the organisation on http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/organisations/lfv.html or to be covered by a financial viability check in an EU project for the last closed financial year. Where the result was “weak” or “insufficient”, the coordinator confirms being aware of the measures that may be imposed in accordance with the H2020 Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or
- is exempt from the financial capacity check being a public body including international organisations, higher or secondary education establishment or a legal entity, whose viability is guaranteed by a Member State or associated country, as defined in the H2020 Grants Manual (Chapter on Financial capacity check); or
- as sole participant in the proposal is exempt from the financial capacity check.
5) The coordinator hereby declares that each applicant has confirmed:
- they are fully eligible in accordance with the criteria set out in the specific call for proposals; and
- they have the financial and operational capacity to carry out the proposed action.
The coordinator is only responsible for the correctness of the information relating to his/her own organisation. Each applicant remains responsible for the correctness of the information related to him/her and declared above. Where the proposal to be retained for EU funding, the coordinator and each beneficiary applicant will be required to present a formal declaration in this respect.
According to Article 131 of the Financial Regulation of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (Official Journal L 298 of 26.10.2012, p. 1) and Article 145 of its Rules of Application (Official Journal L 362, 31.12.2012, p.1) applicants found guilty of misrepresentation may be subject to administrative and financial penalties under certain conditions.
Personal data protection
Your reply to the grant application will involve the recording and processing of personal data (such as your name, address and CV), which will be processed pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions and bodies and on the free movement of such data. Unless indicated otherwise, your replies to the questions in this form and any personal data requested are required to assess your grant application in accordance with the specifications of the call for proposals and will be processed solely for that purpose. Details concerning the processing of your personal data are available on the privacy statement. Applicants may lodge a complaint about the processing of their personal data with the European Data Protection Supervisor at any time. Your personal data may be registered in the Early Warning System (EWS) only or both in the EWS and Central Exclusion Database (CED) by the Accounting Officer of the Commission, should you be in one of the situations mentioned in: -the Commission Decision 2008/969 of 16.12.2008 on the Early Warning System (for more information see the Privacy Statement), or -the Commission Regulation 2008/1302 of 17.12.2008 on the Central Exclusion Database (for more information see the Privacy Statement) .
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List of participants# Participant Legal Name Country
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2 - Administrative data of participating organisationsPIC Legal name
Short name: Address of the organisation
Town
Postcode
Street
Country
Webpage
Legal Status of your organisation
Research and Innovation legal statuses
Public body .................................................... unknown Legal person .............................. unknown
Non-profit ...................................................... unknown
International organisation .................................. unknown
International organisation of European interest ...... unknown
Secondary or Higher education establishment ....... unknown
Research organisation ..................................... unknown
SME self-declared status................................... unknown
SME self-assesment ........................................ unknown
SME validation sme.......................................... unknown
Based on the above details of the Beneficiary Registry the organisation is not an SME (small- and medium-sized enterprise) for the call.
NACE Code: -
Enterprise Data
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Department(s) carrying out the proposed work
Department name
Street Please enter street name and number.
Town
Same as organisation address
Department 1
not applicable
Country
Postcode
Dependencies with other proposal participants
Character of dependence Participant
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Person in charge of the proposal
The name and e-mail of contact persons are read-only in the administrative form, only additional details can be edited here. To give access rights and basic contact details of contact persons, please go back to Step 4 of the submission wizard and save the changes.
Town Post code
Street
Website
First name Last name
Position in org. Please indicate the position of the Contact Point above in the organisation.
Department Please indicate the department of the Contact Point above in the organisation
Phone 2 +xxx xxxxxxxxx Fax +xxx xxxxxxxxx
Sex Male FemaleTitle
Same as organisation address
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Phone 1 +xxx xxxxxxxxx
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3 - Budget for the proposal No Participant Country (A)
Direct personnel
costs/€
?
(B) Other direct
costs/€
?
(C) Direct costs of
sub-contracting/€
?
(D) Direct costs of
providing financial
support to third parties/€
?
(E) Costs of inkind
contributions not used on the
beneficiary's premises/€
?
(F) Indirect Costs
/ €
(=0.25(A+B-E))
?
(G) Special unit
costs covering direct &
indirect costs / €
?
(H) Total
estimated eligible costs
/ € (=A+B+C+D+F
+G)
?
(I) Reimburse-
ment rate (%)
?
(J) Max.EU
Contribution / €
(=H*I)
?
(K) Requested
EU Contribution/
€
?
1 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0,00 100 0,00 0,00
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0,00 0 0,00 0,00 0,00
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4 - Ethics issues table1. HUMAN EMBRYOS/FOETUSES Page
Does your research involve Human Embryonic Stem Cells (hESCs)? Yes No
Does your research involve the use of human embryos? Yes No
Does your research involve the use of human foetal tissues / cells? Yes No
2. HUMANS Page
Does your research involve human participants? Yes No
Does your research involve physical interventions on the study participants? Yes No
3. HUMAN CELLS / TISSUES Page
Does your research involve human cells or tissues (other than from Human Embryos/Foetuses, i.e. section 1)?
Yes No
4. PERSONAL DATA Page
Does your research involve personal data collection and/or processing? Yes No
Does your research involve further processing of previously collected personal data (secondary use)?
Yes No
5. ANIMALS Page
Does your research involve animals? Yes No
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6. THIRD COUNTRIES Page
In case non-EU countries are involved, do the research related activities undertaken in these countries raise potential ethics issues?
Yes No
Do you plan to use local resources (e.g. animal and/or human tissue samples, genetic material, live animals, human remains, materials of historical value, endangered fauna or flora samples, etc.)?
Yes No
Do you plan to import any material - including personal data - from non-EU countries into the EU?
For data imports, please fill in also section 4. For imports concerning human cells or tissues, fill in also section 3.
Yes No
Do you plan to export any material - including personal data - from the EU to non-EU countries? For data exports, please fill in also section 4. For exports concerning human cells or tissues, fill in also section 3.
Yes No
If your research involves low and/or lower middle income countries, are benefits-sharing measures foreseen?
Yes No
Could the situation in the country put the individuals taking part in the research at risk? Yes No
7. ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH and SAFETY Page
Does your research involve the use of elements that may cause harm to the environment, to animals or plants? For research involving animal experiments, please fill in also section 5.
Yes No
Does your research deal with endangered fauna and/or flora and/or protected areas? Yes No
Does your research involve the use of elements that may cause harm to humans, including research staff? For research involving human participants, please fill in also section 2.
Yes No
8. DUAL USE Page
Does your research have the potential for military applications? Yes No
9. MISUSE Page
Does your research have the potential for malevolent/criminal/terrorist abuse? Yes No
10. OTHER ETHICS ISSUES Page
Are there any other ethics issues that should be taken into consideration? Please specify Yes No
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I confirm that I have taken into account all ethics issues described above and that, if any ethics issues apply, I will complete the ethics self-assessment and attach the required documents.
How to Complete your Ethics Self-Assessment
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Validation result
Section Description
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The red 'Show Error' button indicates an error due to a missing or incorrect value related to the call eligibility criteria. The submission of the proposal will be blocked unless that specific field is corrected!
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The form has not yet been validated, click "Validate Form" to do so!
template v20151013
Proposal template
(technical annex)
Coordination and support actions
Please follow the structure of this template when preparing your proposal. It has been designed to
ensure that the important aspects of your planned work are presented in a way that will enable the
experts to make an effective assessment against the evaluation criteria. Sections 1, 2 and 3 each
correspond to an evaluation criterion for a full proposal.
Please be aware that proposals will be evaluated as they were submitted, rather than on their potential if
certain changes were to be made. This means that only proposals that successfully address all the
required aspects will have a chance of being funded. There will be no possibility for significant changes
to content, budget and consortium composition during grant preparation.
First stage proposals: In two-stage submission schemes, at the first stage you only need to
complete the parts in brackets (i.e. }). These are in the cover page, and sections 1 and 2.
Page limit: For full proposals, the cover page, and sections 1, 2 and 3, together should not be longer
than 50 pages. All tables in these sections must be included within this limit. The minimum font size
allowed is 11 points. The page size is A4, and all margins (top, bottom, left, right) should be at least 15
mm (not including any footers or headers).
The page limit for a first stage proposal is 10 pages.
The page limit will be applied automatically; therefore you must remove this instruction page before
submitting.
If you attempt to upload a proposal longer than the specified limit, before the deadline you will receive
an automatic warning, and will be advised to shorten and re-upload the proposal. After the deadline,
any excess pages will be overprinted with a ‘watermark’, indicating to evaluators that these pages must
be disregarded.
Please do not consider the page limit as a target! It is in your interest to keep your text as concise as
possible, since experts rarely view unnecessarily long proposals in a positive light.
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COVER PAGE
Title of Proposal
Note: Consortium members are listed in part A. For full proposals only, a summary list
should also be provided in the table below.
List of participants
Participant No * Participant organisation name Country
1 (Coordinator)
2
3
* Please use the same participant numbering as that used in the administrative proposal
forms.
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1. Excellence
Your proposal must address a topic set out in the work programme, for this call for proposals.
This section of your proposal will be assessed only to the extent that it is relevant to that topic.
1.1 Objectives
Describe the specific objectives for the project1, which should be clear, measurable, realistic
and achievable within the duration of the project. Objectives should be consistent with the
expected exploitation and impact of the project (see section 2).
1.2 Relation to the work programme
Indicate the work programme topic to which your proposal relates, and explain how your
proposal addresses the specific challenge and scope of that topic, as set out in the work
programme.
1.3 Concept and methodology, quality of the coordination and support measures
Describe and explain the overall concept underpinning the project. Describe the main ideas,
models or assumptions involved;
Describe any national or international research and innovation activities which will be
linked with the project, especially where the outputs from these will feed into the project;
Describe and explain the overall methodology.
Where relevant, describe how sex and/or gender analysis is taken into account in the
project’s content.
Sex and gender refer to biological characteristics and social/cultural factors respectively. For guidance on
methods of sex / gender analysis and the issues to be taken into account, please refer to
http://ec.europa.eu/research/swafs/gendered-innovations/index_en.cfm?pg=home
2. Impact
2.1 Expected impacts
Please be specific, and provide only information that applies to the proposal and its objectives. Wherever possible, use quantified indicators and targets.
Describe how your project will contribute to the expected impacts set out in the work
programme, under the relevant topic;
1 The term ‘project’ used in this template equates to an ‘action’ in certain other Horizon 2020 documentation.
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Describe any barriers/obstacles, and any framework conditions (such as regulation and
standards), that may determine whether and to what extent the expected impacts will be
achieved. (This should not include any risk factors concerning implementation, as covered
in section 3.2.)
2.2 Measures to maximise impact
a) Dissemination and exploitation of results
Provide a draft ‘plan for the dissemination and exploitation of the project's results’.
Please note that such a draft plan is an admissibility condition, unless the work
programme topic explicitly states that such a plan is not required.
Show how the proposed measures will help to achieve the expected impact of the
project.
The plan, should be proportionate to the scale of the project, and should contain
measures to be implemented both during and after the end of the project.
Your plan for the dissemination and exploitation of the project's results is key to maximising their
impact. This plan should describe, in a concrete and comprehensive manner, the area in which you
expect to make an impact and who are the potential users of your results. Your plan should also
describe how you intend to use the appropriate channels of dissemination and interaction with potential
users.
Consider the full range of potential users and uses, including research, commercial, investment,
social, environmental, policy-making, setting standards, skills and educational training where relevant.
Your plan should give due consideration to the possible follow-up of your project, once it is finished.
Its exploitation could require additional investments, wider testing or scaling up. Its exploitation could
also require other pre-conditions like regulation to be adapted, or value chains to adopt the results, or
the public at large being receptive to your results.
Include a business plan where relevant.
If you will take part in the pilot on Open Research Data2 , include information on how
the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the
project, in particular addressing the following issues:3
o What types of data will the project generate/collect?
o What standards will be used?
o How will this data be exploited and/or shared/made accessible for verification
and re-use? If data cannot be made available, explain why.
o How will this data be curated and preserved?
2 Certain actions under Horizon 2020 participate in the ‘Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020’. All other actions
can participate on a voluntary basis to this pilot. Further guidance is available in the H2020 Online Manual on the
Participant Portal. 3 For further guidance on research data management, please refer to the H2020 Online Manual on the Participant Portal.
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You will need an appropriate consortium agreement to manage (amongst other things) the ownership
and access to key knowledge (IPR, data etc.). Where relevant, these will allow you, collectively and
individually, to pursue market opportunities arising from the project's results.
The appropriate structure of the consortium to support exploitation is addressed in section 3.3.
Outline the strategy for knowledge management and protection. Include measures to
provide open access (free on-line access, such as the ‘green’ or ‘gold’ model) to peer-
reviewed scientific publications which might result from the project4.
Open access publishing (also called 'gold' open access) means that an article is immediately provided
in open access mode by the scientific publisher. The associated costs are usually shifted away from
readers, and instead (for example) to the university or research institute to which the researcher is
affiliated, or to the funding agency supporting the research.
Self-archiving (also called 'green' open access) means that the published article or the final peer-
reviewed manuscript is archived by the researcher - or a representative - in an online repository before,
after or alongside its publication. Access to this article is often - but not necessarily - delayed (‘embargo
period’), as some scientific publishers may wish to recoup their investment by selling subscriptions and
charging pay-per-download/view fees during an exclusivity period.
b) Communication activities
Describe the proposed communication measures for promoting the project and its findings
during the period of the grant5. Measures should be proportionate to the scale of the project,
with clear objectives. They should be tailored to the needs of different target audiences,
including groups beyond the project's own community. Where relevant, include measures
for public/societal engagement on issues related to the project.
3. Implementation
3.1 Work plan – Work packages and deliverables
Please provide the following:
brief presentation of the overall structure of the work plan
timing of the different work packages and their components (Gantt chart or similar)
detailed work description, i.e.:
o a description of each work package (table 3.1a)
o a list of work packages (table 3.1b);
o a list of major deliverables (table 3.1c);
graphical presentation of the components showing how they inter-relate (Pert chart
or similar)
4 Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions. Further guidance on open
access is available in the H2020 Online Manual on the Participant Portal. 5 For further guidance on communicating EU research and innovation guidance for project participants, please refer to the
H2020 Online Manual on the Participant Portal.
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Give full details. Base your account on the logical structure of the project and the stages in which it
is to be carried out. Include details of the resources to be allocated to each work package. The number
of work packages should be proportionate to the scale and complexity of the project. .Resources
assigned to work packages should be in line with their objectives and deliverables.
You should give enough detail in each work package to justify the proposed resources to be allocated
and also quantified information so that progress can be monitored, including by the Commission.
You are advised to include a distinct work package on ‘Management’ (see section 3.2), and to give
due visibility in the work plan to ‘dissemination and exploitation’ and ‘communication activities’, either
with distinct tasks, or possibly distinct work packages.
You will be required to include an updated (or confirmed) plan for ‘dissemination and exploitation’
in both the mid-term and final reports. (This does not apply to topics where a draft plan was not
required.) This should include a record of activities related to dissemination and exploitation that have
been undertaken, and those still planned. A report of completed and planned communication activities
will also be required.
If your project is taking part in the Pilot on Open Research Data6, you must include a 'data
management plan' as a distinct deliverable within the first 6 months of the project. A template for such a
plan is given in the guidelines on data management in the H2020 Online Manual. This deliverable will
evolve during the lifetime of the project in order to present the status of the project's reflections on data
management.
Definitions:
‘Work package’ means a major sub-division of the proposed project
‘Deliverable’ means a distinct output of the project, meaningful in terms of the project’s overall
objectives, and constituted by a report, a document, a technical diagram, a software etc.
3.2 Management structure and procedures
Describe the organisational structure and the decision-making (including a list of
milestones (table 3.2a));
Definitions:
Milestones’ means control points in the project that help to chart progress. Milestones may
correspond to the completion of a key deliverable, allowing the next phase of the work to begin.
They may also be needed at intermediary points so that, if problems have arisen, corrective
measures can be taken. A milestone may be a critical decision point in the project where, for
example, the consortium must decide which of several technologies to adopt for further
development.
Explain why the organisational structure and decision-making mechanisms are appropriate
to the complexity and scale of the project;
6 Certain actions under Horizon 2020 participate in the ‘Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020’. All other actions
can participate on a voluntary basis to this pilot. Further guidance is available in the H2020 Online Manual on the
Participant Portal.
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Describe, where relevant, how effective innovation management will be addressed in the
management structure and work plan;
Innovation management is a process which requires an understanding of both market and technical
problems, with a goal of successfully implementing appropriate creative ideas. A new or improved
product, service or process is its typical output. It also allows a consortium to respond to an external or
internal opportunity.
Describe any critical risks, relating to project implementation, that the stated project’s
objectives may not be achieved. Detail any risk mitigation measures. Please provide a table
with critical risks identified and mitigating actions (table 3.2b).
3.3 Consortium as a whole
The individual members of the consortium are described in a separate section 4. There is no need to
repeat that information here.
Describe the consortium. How will it match the project’s objectives, and bring together the
necessary expertise? How do the members complement one another (and cover the value
chain, where appropriate)? In what way does each of them contribute to the project? Show
that each has a valid role, and adequate resources in the project to fulfil that role.
If applicable, describe the industrial/commercial involvement in the project to ensure
exploitation of the results and explain why this is consistent with and will help to achieve
the specific measures which are proposed for exploitation of the results of the project (see
section 2.2).
Other countries and international organisations: If one or more of the participants
requesting EU funding is based in a country or is an international organisation that is not
automatically eligible for such funding (entities from Member States of the EU, from
Associated Countries and from one of the countries in the exhaustive list included in
General Annex A of the work programme are automatically eligible for EU funding),
explain why the participation of the entity in question is essential to carrying out the project
3.4 Resources to be committed
Please make sure the information in this section matches the costs as stated in the budget table in
section 3 of the administrative proposal forms, and the number of person/months, shown in the detailed
work package descriptions.
Please provide the following:
a table showing number of person/months required (table 3.4a);
a table showing ‘other direct costs’ (table 3.4b) for participants where those costs
exceed 15% of the personnel costs (according to the table in section 3 of the
administrative proposal forms).
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Tables for section 3.1
Table 3.1 a: Work package description
For each work package:
Work package number Start Date or Starting Event
Work package title
Participant number
Short name of participant
Person/months per
participant:
Start month End
month
Objectives
Description of work (where appropriate, broken down into tasks), lead partner and role of
participants
Deliverables (brief description and month of delivery)
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Table 3.1 b: List of work packages
Work
package
No
Work
Package
Title
Lead
Participant
No
Lead
Participant
Short
Name
Person-
Months
Start
Month
End
month
Total
months
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Table 3.1 c: List of Deliverables7
Deliverable
(number)
Deliverable
name
Work
package
number
Short
name of
lead
participant
Type Dissemination
level
Delivery
date
(in
months)
KEY
Deliverable numbers in order of delivery dates. Please use the numbering convention <WP
number>.<number of deliverable within that WP>.
For example, deliverable 4.2 would be the second deliverable from work package 4.
Type:
Use one of the following codes:
R: Document, report (excluding the periodic or final report)
DEC: Websites, patents filing, market studies, press & media actions, videos, etc.
OTHER: Software, technical diagram, etc.
Dissemination level:
Use one of the following codes:
PU = Public, fully open, e.g. web
CO = Confidential, restricted under conditions set out in Model Grant Agreement
CI = Classified, information as referred to in Commission Decision 2001/844/EC.
Delivery date
Measured in months from the project start date (month 1)
7 If your action is taking part in the Pilot on Open Research Data, you must include a data management plan as a distinct
deliverable within the first 6 months of the project. This deliverable will evolve during the lifetime of the project in order
to present the status of the project's reflections on data management. A template for such a plan is available on the
Participant Portal (Guide on Data Management).
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Tables for section 3.2
Table 3.2 a: List of milestones
Milestone
number
Milestone
name
Related work
package(s)
Due date (in
month)
Means of
verification
KEY
Due date
Measured in months from the project start date (month 1)
Means of verification
Show how you will confirm that the milestone has been attained. Refer to indicators if appropriate. For
example: a laboratory prototype that is ‘up and running’; software released and validated by a user
group; field survey complete and data quality validated.
Table 3.2b: Critical risks for implementation
Description of risk (indicate level
of likelihood: Low/Medium/High)
Work package(s)
involved
Proposed risk-mitigation
measures
Definition critical risk:
A critical risk is a plausible event or issue that could have a high adverse impact on the ability of the
project to achieve its objectives.
Level of likelihood to occur: Low/medium/high
The likelihood is the estimated probability that the risk will materialise even after taking account of the
mitigating measures put in place.
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Tables for section 3.4
Table 3.4a: Summary of staff effort
Please indicate the number of person/months over the whole duration of the planned work, for each
work package, for each participant. Identify the work-package leader for each WP by showing the
relevant person-month figure in bold.
WPn WPn+1 WPn+2 Total Person/
Months per Participant
Participant
Number/Short Name
Participant
Number/Short Name
Participant
Number/Short Name
Total Person/Months
Table 3.4 b ‘Other direct cost’ items (travel, equipment, infrastructure, goods and services, large
research infrastructure)
Please complete the table below for each participant if the sum of the costs for’ travel’, ‘equipment’,
and ‘goods and services’ exceeds 15% of the personnel costs for that participant (according to the
budget table in section 3 of the proposal administrative forms).
Participant
Number/Short Name
Cost
(€)
Justification
Travel
Equipment
Other goods and
services
Total
Please complete the table below for all participants that would like to declared costs of large research
infrastructure under Article 6.2 of the General Model Agreement8, irrespective of the percentage of
personnel costs. Please indicate (in the justification) if the beneficiary’s methodology for declaring the
costs for large research infrastructure has already been positively assessed by the Commission.
Participant
Number/Short Name
Cost
(€)
Justification
Large research
infrastructure
8 Large research infrastructure means research infrastructure of a total value of at least EUR 20 million, for a beneficiary.
More information and further guidance on the direct costing for the large research infrastructure is available in the
H2020 Online Manual on the Participant Portal.
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Section 4: Members of the consortium
This section is not covered by the page limit.
The information provided here will be used to judge the operational capacity.
4.1. Participants (applicants)
Please provide, for each participant, the following (if available):
a description of the legal entity and its main tasks, with an explanation of how its profile
matches the tasks in the proposal.
a curriculum vitae or description of the profile of the persons, including their gender, who
will be primarily responsible for carrying out the proposed research and/or innovation
activities;
a list of up to 5 relevant publications, and/or products, services (including widely-used
datasets or software), or other achievements relevant to the call content;
a list of up to 5 relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of this
proposal;
a description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical
equipment, relevant to the proposed work;
[any other supporting documents specified in the work programme for this call]
4.2. Third parties involved in the project (including use of third party resources)
Please complete, for each participant, the following table (or simply state “No third parties
involved”, if applicable):
Does the participant plan to subcontract certain tasks (please note that core
tasks of the action should not be sub-contracted)
Y/N
If yes, please describe and justify the tasks to be subcontracted
Does the participant envisage that part of its work is performed by linked
third parties9
Y/N
If yes, please describe the third party, the link of the participant to the third party, and
describe and justify the foreseen tasks to be performed by the third party
Does the participant envisage the use of contributions in kind provided by
third parties (Articles 11 and 12 of the General Model Grant Agreement)
Y/N
If yes, please describe the third party and their contributions
9 A third party that is an affiliated entity or has a legal link to a participant implying a collaboration not limited to the
action (Article 14 of the Model Grant Agreement).
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4.3. Financial support to third parties
For detailed specific info on terms and conditions: see General Annex K of the Horizon 2020 Work
Programme published in the reference documents section of the H2020 Participants Portal
(http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/funding/reference_docs.html)
Where this possibility is indicated under the relevant topic in the Work Programme and in the relevant
calls for proposals, proposals which foresee a financial support to third parties, shall:
1. clearly detail the objectives and the results to be obtained and
2. contain the following specifications (as a minimum):
a) a closed list of activities that qualify for financial support; please check in the Work
Programme and call for proposals for the list of activities for which financial support to
third party is allowed;
b) the definition of persons or categories of persons that may receive financial support;
c) the criteria for awarding financial support;
d) the criteria for calculating the exact amount of the financial support;
e) the maximum amount of financial support per third party, which must not exceed EUR
60 000, unless a higher amount is necessary to achieve the objectives of the action, and
the criteria for determining it.
Please check in the Work Programme and call for proposals if there are other conditions that
apply and, if so, include them in the specifications or in any other element of the proposal as
appropriate.
Financial support in the form of a prize
Where this possibility is indicated under the relevant topic in the Work Programme, proposals which
foresee a financial support in the form of a prize, shall:
1. clearly detail the objectives and the results to be obtained and
2. contain the following specifications (as a minimum):
a) the conditions for participation;
b) the award criteria;
c) the amount of the prize;
d) the arrangements for payment.
Please check in the Work Programme and the call for proposals if the are other conditions that apply
and, if so, include them in the specifications or in any other element of the proposal as appropriate.
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Section 5: Ethics and security
This section is not covered by the page limit.
5.1 Ethics
If you have entered any ethics issues in the ethical issue table in the administrative proposal forms, you
must:
submit an ethics self-assessment, which:
o describes how the proposal meets the national legal and ethical requirements of
the country or countries where the tasks raising ethical issues are to be carried
out;
o explains in detail how you intend to address the issues in the ethical issues table,
in particular as regards:
- research objectives (e.g. study of vulnerable populations, dual use, etc.);
- research methodology (e.g. clinical trials, involvement of children and
related consent procedures, protection of any data collected, etc.);
- the potential impact of the research (e.g. dual use issues, environmental
damage, stigmatisation of particular social groups, political or financial
retaliation, benefit-sharing, malevolent use, etc.).
provide the documents that you need under national law (if you already have them), e.g.:
o an ethics committee opinion;
o the document notifying activities raising ethical issues or authorising such
activities.
If these documents are not in English, you must also submit an English summary of them (containing, if
available, the conclusions of the committee or authority concerned).
If you plan to request these documents specifically for the action you are proposing, your request must
contain an explicit reference to the action title.
5.2 Security10
Please indicate if your project will involve:
activities or results raising security issues: (YES/NO)
'EU-classified information' as background or results: (YES/NO)
10
Article 37.1 of the Model Grant Agreement: Before disclosing results of activities raising security issues to a third party
(including affiliated entities), a beneficiary must inform the coordinator — which must request written approval from the
Commission/Agency. Article 37.2: Activities related to ‘classified deliverables’ must comply with the ‘security
requirements’ until they are declassified. Action tasks related to classified deliverables may not be subcontracted without
prior explicit written approval from the Commission/Agency. The beneficiaries must inform the coordinator — which must
immediately inform the Commission/Agency — of any changes in the security context and — if necessary —request for
Annex 1 to be amended (see Article 55